Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology

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About WikiProject Microbiology This Wikiproject aims to organize efforts to improve microbiology-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants, or have a look at the How you can help section below. You don't need to know anything about microbiology to help! Scope This project aims to cover all areas of microbiology including: bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, viruses, microbiologists, microbiological methods and concepts, microbiology equipment, microscopy, and other microbiology-related topics. Similar WikiProjects Parentage WikiProject Science WikiProject Biology WikiProject Tree of Life WikiProject Microbiology WikiProject Viruses WikiProject AIDS WikiProject COVID-19 WikiProject Fungi WikiProject Molecular Biology Portals Science Biology Microbiology Viruses Category tree WikiProject Microbiology articles Microbiology articles by importance Microbiology articles by quality Microbiology articles needing attention How you can help Improve articles We have over 10,000 articles listed as "stubs", pick your favorite and start adding more info! Nearly 20% of all Microbiology articles are tagged with some concern! These mark areas for improvement. Feel free to post on the talk page if you need a hand! Improve articles to GA! Check new articles added to our project! Start new articles Pick your favorite protein/microbe/microbiology-related thing and start a new article! If you need a hand, post on the talk page! Discuss Join in discussing proposals on the talk page. Any ideas are always welcome! Improve the project itself Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in microbiology to contribute. A bot-generated list of users active on microbiology pages is here! Categorise microbiology related articles Label articles of interest to the project by putting the banner template on the talk pages of all articles of interest to microbiology. Categorise articles by adding them to the appropriate microbiology categories as shown to right. Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Cleanup : Sterilisation (microbiology), Escherichia coli, Lactobacillus Expand : Antimicrobial, Colony-forming unit, Microbiologist, Lactobacillus, Lactic acid bacteria, Escherichia coli, Indicator bacteria, Yersinia pestis Merge : Bacterial cellular morphologies: (Coccus, Diplococcus, Coccobacillus, Bacilli, etc) Coliform Index into Faecal coliforms Merge and redirect all Alga stub basionyms Split : Mycoplasma Stubs : Category:Microbiology stubs, but also... Telonemia, Morganella morganii, Chaetoceros coarctatus, Roseofilum reptotaenium, Rhabdosphaera clavigera Other : Get to GA class: Mould, Yersinia pestis, Category:B-Class Microbiology articles Get to FA class: Escherichia coli, Yeast, Category:GA-Class_Microbiology_articles edit this list edit this panel	WikiProject Microbiology Project standards Portal: Biology Portal Shortcuts: WP:MICRO Project template: {{WikiProject Micro}} Member userbox: {{User WikiProject Micro}} Category Navigation Microbiology Branches of microbiology Microbiologists Microorganisms Antimicrobials Applied microbiology Microbiology awards Biomagnetics Environmental microbiology Microbiology equipment Eukaryotic microbiology Food microbiology Geomicrobiology History of microbiology Infectious diseases Microbiology literature Microbial metabolism Microbial growth and nutrition Microbial population biology Microbiology organizations Microbiology techniques Microbiology terms Parasitology Secretion Microbiology stubs Our sister projects Images and media from Commons Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary Textbooks from Wikibooks Quotations from Wikiquote Source texts from Wikisource News stories from Wikinews Learning resources from Wikiversity edit this panel
	Microbiology articles by quality statics Microbiology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 5 5 10 FM 11 11 GA 8 13 7 17 45 B 36 53 53 93 2 237 C 22 96 300 748 14 1,180 Start 7 82 356 1,461 56 1,962 Stub 12 121 11,630 1 7 11,771 List 3 5 12 39 1 1 61 Category 1,003 1,003 Disambig 35 35 File 18 18 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 18 454 707 1,182 Template 1,812 1,812 NA 6 6 Other 20 20 Assessed 81 269 867 14,442 3,630 80 19,369 Unassessed 6 1 60 67 Total 81 269 867 14,448 3,631 140 19,436 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 85,957 Ω = 5.65
Microbiology articles by quality log November 21, 2024 Reassessed Cytauxzoonosis (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Monera (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Michael D.L. Johnson (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) November 20, 2024 Renamed Guduru Gopal Rao renamed to Guduru Gopal Rao. November 19, 2024 Reassessed Ethanoligenens harbinense (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Heterolobosea (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) November 17, 2024 Reassessed Rotifer (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to B-Class. (rev · t) Removed Draft:Anthony (Tony) Nelson Sharpe (talk) removed. November 16, 2024 Assessed The Xenotext (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) November 15, 2024 Reassessed Harold Scott (pathologist) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Dellaglioa (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Palpitomonas (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t) Draft:Sarah E. Evans (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) XIV International AIDS Conference, 2002 (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Participants To join the group simply add yourself to the list of participants, being sure to maintain alphabetical order. Inviting users {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology/Invitation}} can be used to invite users to the project.
Templates Template type What to type What it makes Userbox {{User WikiProject Micro}} This user is a participant in WikiProject Microbiology. Barnstar {{Microbiology Barnstar}} Microbiology barnstar {{{1}}} Stub Microbiology {{Microbiology-stub}} Stub Bacteria {{Bacteria-stub}} Stub Archaea {{Archaea-stub}} Stub Yeast {{Yeast-stub}} Stub Protist {{Protist-stub}} Stub Virus {{Virus-stub}} Taxobox {{Automatic taxobox}} click here to see how to use Most popular pages Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology/Popular pages Project banner The project banner is {{WikiProject Microbiology}}, and should be placed on the talk page of articles within the scope of this WikiProject. See the template page for usage instructions.

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• 03 Nov 2024 – Ethanoligenens harbinense (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Hmsuth4770 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 07 Oct 2024 – Eobacteria (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by UtherSRG (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 14 Oct 2024; see discussion (3 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 22 Sep 2024 – Foot process (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by PecMo (t · c) was deproded by GraziePrego (t · c) on 23 Sep 2024

Requested moves

• 28 Oct 2024 – Lawsonella clevelandensis (talk · edit · hist) move request to Lawsonella by Jlwoodwa (t · c) was moved to Lawsonella (talk · edit · hist) by Frostly (t · c) on 06 Nov 2024; see discussion
• 10 Oct 2024 – Asgard (archaea) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Asgard (Archaea) by Grey Clownfish (t · c) was moved to Asgard (Archaea) (talk · edit · hist) by Arnav Bhate (t · c) on 17 Oct 2024; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 18 Nov 2023 – Gram-negative bacteria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2023 – Gram-positive bacteria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Nov 2023 – Mycoplasma (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Oct 2021 – Tetrahymena (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CycoMa (t · c); see discussion

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• 01 Nov 2024 – Draft:Jan Poolman (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Wikicluck44 (t · c)
• 16 Oct 2024 – Draft:Desh Pal S. Verma (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Vermadesh (t · c) was declined by Ldm1954 (t · c) on 16 Nov 2024
• 19 Feb 2024 – Draft:Donald J. Netolitzky (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Peter Kelford (t · c) was declined by SafariScribe (t · c) on 09 Nov 2024
• undated – Draft:Cyclodextran (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was declined by Pygos (t · c) on 06 Nov 2024

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